Jump King

Of all the games I've played in the past decade, this was by far the most unfair, frustrating, and just downright disrespectfull of the player's time and energy. Don't get me wrong, I love hard games, and as a rule my favorite games are all considered to be very hard. To prove that I could do it, I even went through the excrutiating torture of finishing this one, so I actually got to the babe and put my hard earned king's crown on my big shiny helmet, in what was about 10 hours of absolute hell. Apparently I was retarded enough to start a NG+, which I eventually quit after going about halfway up, where it became clear as day to me that the game's intended purpose is to make you suffer indefinitely and not to challenge you. Having to excecute a series of ridiculous jumps, landing on something the size of a nail that is located half a screen away, only to end up falling at the beginning of the PREVIOUS level and having to go through all the same crap again just to merely get a chance to correct your mistake - this is the level of bullshit we 're talking here. And it wouldn't even be so mind-numbingly frustrating if you could actually control your jumps with the required insane level of accuracy, but unfortunately you can't, unless you 're a world class speedrunner who put hundreds of hours into this. Whenever I fell it didn't feel like it was hard, it felt like it was cheap, and like the devs were merely making me do the impossible just to laugh at me when I fell over losing a ton of progress. I could sit through the rest of the challenges and finish them after many many hours of pain and frustration, but having some self-respect and an actual life I see literally no reasons to do so. Other than that, pixel art is great, atmosphere is great, soundtrack is short but sweet, and it is for these reasons only that I bothered to even finish it and give it a generous 3/5. Not recommended unless you 're a streamer who gets paid to provide a show of torturing themselves.